Seanad debates

Thursday, 30 January 2003

Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).

 

Bearing in mind that the advice available to me is that the tribunal is not excluded from publishing any or all of its decisions which it considers of sufficient legal or factual importance to bring to the public's attention, to cast an obligation on it to edit and produce a sanitised version of every decision which could not possibly embarrass anyone involved would be quite difficult to do. The Senator should also bear in mind that decisions of this nature could reject an allegation that someone in another state committed acts of an horrific nature which amounted to persecution. Bearing in mind that this State must protect not only the interests of the applicant but also those falsely accused by applicants of persecution, the balancing act involved in such an operation would be immensely difficult. Regrettably, I must oppose the amendment.

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